Simone Development Signs The New Jewish Home to a New Lease for Adult Day Services at Hutch Metro Center in the Bronx

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The New Jewish Home Lease at 1200 Waters Place Totals Nearly 50,000 SF

(BRONX, NY – May 31, 2017) –Simone Development Companies has signed a new lease with The New Jewish Home, one of the nation’s largest and most diversified not-for-profit geriatric health and rehabilitation systems, totaling 49,739 square feet of office and adult day services space at 1200 Waters Place at the Hutchinson Metro Center in the Bronx.

The New Jewish Home signed the long-term lease for the first and second floors of 1200 Waters Place, a 460,000 square-foot mixed-use building within the Hutch Metro Center.

James D. MacDonald, Vice President of Leasing, and Josh Gopan, Director of Leasing for Hutch Metro Center, represented the owner, Simone Development, in the transaction. Brian Weld and Matt Ettinger of Cushman & Wakefield, represented The New Jewish Home.

“This deal is yet another example of the Hutch Metro Center’s being the destination of choice for major service providers and office tenants in the Bronx,” said Mr. MacDonald. “Offering convenient access to Manhattan, Queens, Long Island and Westchester, the Hutch Metro Center offers the convenience of a suburban office park setting in the heart of New York City.”

Said Audrey Weiner, President and CEO, The New Jewish Home: “The new location will unite what are now two separate adult day centers in a single state-of-the-art facility. The physical design will support a diverse array of programs, including programs for the very frail, the cognitively impaired, and those needing rehab. These advantages, combined with our person-directed approach to care, will make the new center extraordinary.”

Simone Development’s Hutchinson Metro Center is one of the most successful commercial projects in the history of the Bronx, totaling over 1.4 million square feet of office, medical and retail space that is occupied by some of the leading medical, educational and government tenants in New York City, including Montefiore Hospital, Visiting Nurse Services, Affinity Health Systems, Mercy College, the NYC Housing Authority, the IRS and the NYC Administration of Children’s Services among dozens of tenants employing over 6,000 individuals. The campus is also home to a Marriott Residence Inn, the borough’s only national flag hotel, LA Fitness, Applebee’s and other retailers.

The property at 1200 Waters Place is a 460,000-square-foot modern office building featuring three floors of Class A office space and a host of outstanding amenities including a full-service Café with landscaped courtyard, Fitness Center, Teleconference Center, Child Care Center, Sundry Shop and abundant parking.

Simone Development Companies is a full-service real estate investment company specializing in the acquisition and development of office, medical, retail, industrial and residential properties in the New York tri-state area. Headquartered in the Bronx, the privately held company owns and manages more than 5 million square feet of property in the Bronx, Westchester County, Queens, Long Island and Connecticut. The company’s portfolio includes more than 100 properties and ranges from multi-building office parks to retail and industrial space.

Serving New Yorkers of all faiths and ethnicities for 168 years, The New Jewish Home is transforming eldercare as we know it. One of the nation’s largest and most diversified not‐for‐profit geriatric health and rehabilitation systems, The New Jewish Home serves 12,000 older adults each year, in their homes and on campuses in Manhattan and Westchester, through short-term rehabilitation, long‐term skilled nursing, low-income housing, and a wide range of home health programs. The New Jewish Home believes that high quality care and personal dignity are everyone’s right, regardless of background or economic circumstance. Technology, innovation, applied research and new models of care put The New Jewish Home at the vanguard of eldercare providers across the country.

(NEW YORK — May 15, 2017) The Mount Sinai Health System and The New Jewish Home are continuing their expansion of services to improve the care of hospitalized patients who require specialized post-acute or long-term care at a skilled nursing facility after leaving the hospital. Through the Mount Sinai-New Jewish Home Hospitalist Program, Mount Sinai doctors specializing in hospital care (known as hospitalists) will provide a seamless transition for patients who need nursing care at The New Jewish Home.

The transition of care between hospitals and skilled nursing facilities is a highly vulnerable time for patients. Information may not be adequately relayed and urgent priorities can be overlooked. This innovative model will facilitate greater communication and ensure the transfer of vital information between these venues, allowing patients to receive the expert care they need without interruption.

The joint expertise of these two renowned institutions will provide enhanced protocols for follow-up care and will reduce the risk of re-hospitalization in order to provide the best possible outcomes for patients discharged from the hospital.

“Building on The New Jewish Home’s already deep and long-standing relationship with Mount Sinai, this new partnership will help accomplish our shared goal of improving care transitions for our patients,” said Audrey Weiner, PhD, President and CEO, The New Jewish Home. “This innovative model ensures the highest quality care for our patients.”

“We are excited about this next step in our partnership with The New Jewish Home,” said Andrew Dunn, MD, MPH, SFHM, FACP, Chair-elect of the American College of Physicians Board of Regents, Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine at Mount Sinai Health System. “The collaboration will allow us to meet a growing need for high-quality nursing home care while strengthening our commitments to the patients and community we serve.”

ABOUT THE NEW JEWISH HOME

Serving New Yorkers of all faiths and ethnicities for 168 years, The New Jewish Home is transforming eldercare as we know it. One of the nation’s largest and most diversified not‐for‐profit geriatric health and rehabilitation systems, Jewish Home serves 12,000 older adults each year, in their homes and on campuses in Manhattan and Westchester, through short-term rehabilitation, long‐term skilled nursing, low-income housing, and a wide range of home health programs. Jewish Home believes that high quality care and personal dignity are everyone’s right, regardless of background or economic circumstances. Technology, innovation, applied research and new models of care put The New Jewish Home at the vanguard of eldercare providers across the country.

ABOUT THE MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM

The Mount Sinai Health System is an integrated health system committed to providing distinguished care, conducting transformative research, and advancing biomedical education. Structured around seven hospital campuses and a single medical school, the Health System has an extensive ambulatory network and a range of inpatient and outpatient services—from community-based facilities to tertiary and quaternary care.

The System includes approximately 7,100 primary and specialty care physicians; 12 joint-venture ambulatory surgery centers; more than 140 ambulatory practices throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and 31 affiliated community health centers. Physicians are affiliated with the renowned Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, which is ranked among the highest in the nation in National Institutes of Health funding per investigator. The Mount Sinai Hospital is in the “Honor Roll” of best hospitals in America, ranked No. 15 nationally in the 2016-2017 “Best Hospitals” issue of U.S. News & World Report. The Mount Sinai Hospital is also ranked as one of the nation’s top 20 hospitals in Geriatrics, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Nephrology, Neurology/Neurosurgery, and Ear, Nose & Throat, and is in the top 50 in four other specialties. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 10 nationally for Ophthalmology, while Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Mount Sinai St. Luke’s, and Mount Sinai West are ranked regionally. Mount Sinai’s Kravis Children’s Hospital is ranked in seven out of ten pediatric specialties by U.S. News & World Report in “Best Children’s Hospitals.”

Dr. Weiner will stay on part-time to lead implementation of the organization’s Manhattan Master Plan

Project will bring the pioneering green house model of nursing home care to NEW YORK CITY

(APRIL 10, 2017 – NEW YORK, NY) Audrey Weiner, DSW, MPH, will retire as President and CEO of The New Jewish Home (Jewish Home), a post she has held since 2002, it was announced today by Board Chair Michael Luskin. The effective date of Dr. Weiner’s retirement is December 31, 2017. Dr. Weiner joined Jewish Home, one of the country’s largest and most diversified not‐for‐profit geriatric health and rehabilitation systems, in 1993 as Administrator for its Westchester campus.

Mr. Luskin added that the Board has asked Dr. Weiner to stay on as President of The Jewish Home’s Fund for the Aged, Inc. (The Foundation), where she will continue spearheading Jewish Home’s Manhattan Master Plan. That plan will result in The Living Center of Manhattan, a 414-bed facility on West 97th Street – the first Green House residence to be built in a major urban center. Dr. Weiner’s position at The Foundation, the fund-raising entity for The New Jewish Home, will be a part-time position.

The West 97th Street facility will house 22 residences and a 150-bed rehabilitation center, all designed and operated according to the groundbreaking person-directed Green House model of eldercare. Green House residents live in large homes rather than in a traditional institutional nursing home environment while having access to the highest standard of skilled nursing care. Each home has 12 private bedrooms-with-baths surrounding a comfortable, spacious living room and a suburban-style kitchen where home-cooked meals are prepared each day and shared at a communal table.

Mr. Luskin said, “While Audrey will be sorely missed as our President and CEO, we are deeply honored that she has agreed to stay on to get the shovel in the ground on the Manhattan Master Plan. The Board of The New Jewish Home is passionately committed to this project and the Green House philosophy which truly is the future of elder care. Audrey’s vision, dynamic leadership and intimate knowledge of all aspects of the project are invaluable assets, and we are delighted that she will continue her work on it.”

In her role as President of the Fund for the Aged (The Foundation), Dr. Weiner will be responsible for all fund raising from both public and private sources; oversight of legal, regulatory, construction, and other approvals; and other related tasks necessary to see the project through.

Dr. Weiner said, “While it’s true that my departure as President and CEO of The New Jewish Home will give me added opportunity to spend more time with my husband, Jeffrey, our family, grandchildren and friends, this will be a retirement with a very important purpose: ensuring that older New Yorkers have access to the best quality, person-centered, skilled nursing care possible. I am eager to start this next phase of my career and will work tirelessly to bring this critically important model of care to deserving New Yorkers.”

Mr. Luskin pointed to Dr. Weiner’s extraordinary accomplishments during her tenure as President and CEO. Key among them are: embracing the Green House model of care; executing a program of culture change that puts the patient experience on a par with clinical excellence and financial stability; and overseeing a staff-wide training program that institutionalizes an understanding of and sensitivity to the needs of LGBTQ and other diverse populations. New and innovative programs have been added to The Jewish Home portfolio including a successful post-acute care division that brought together short and long term care, community based care, care management and adult day programs. In addition, the organization adopted Comfort Matters, a pioneering approach to dementia care; launched the country’s first nursing home-based geriatric substance-abuse recovery program; and created a Medicaid assisted-living residence in the Bronx.

The New Jewish Home has established a search committee and engaged the services of Heidrick & Struggles, a premier provider of senior-level executive search, leadership consulting, and culture-shaping worldwide, to conduct a search for the new President and CEO of The New Jewish Home.

Mr. Luskin said the new President and CEO will be in place by December 31, 2017, at which time Dr. Weiner will transition to her new post.

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Serving New Yorkers of all faiths and ethnicities for 168 years, The New Jewish Home is transforming eldercare as we know it. One of the nation’s largest and most diversified not‐for‐profit geriatric health and rehabilitation systems, Jewish Home serves 12,000 older adults each year in their homes and on two campuses through short-term rehabilitation, long‐term skilled nursing, low-income housing, and a wide range of home health programs. Jewish Home believes that high quality care and personal dignity are everyone’s right, regardless of background or economic circumstances. Technology, innovation, applied research and new models of care put The New Jewish Home at the vanguard of eldercare providers across the country. For more information, visit www.jewishhome.org.

NEW YORK NY: January 9 2016 — The New Jewish Home, one of the nation’s largest and most diversified nonprofit geriatric health and rehabilitation systems, welcomes Gabriel H. Brandeis, MD, CMD, as Senior Director of Medicine.

In a career spanning more than three decades Dr. Brandeis has practiced geriatric medicine at nursing homes, medical centers and veterans’ hospitals throughout the Boston area. For the past 20 years he has been the nursing home medical director for Boston University Geriatric Services.

Dr. Brandeis has taught at Harvard and Boston universities and his research has been published in the Journal of Aging Research, the Annals of Long-term Care, the Journal of the American Geriatric Society, the Journal of Gerontology, Nursing Home Medicine, and a host of other scholarly publications and books. He has been honored by the American Geriatric Society, the Sanofi-Aventis Foundation and Lunax, among others.

Gabriel Brandeis graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with bachelor’s and master’s degrees. He holds an MD from what is now the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Brandeis completed an internal medicine residency at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse and a geriatric fellowship at Harvard Medical School. Subsequently, he joined the faculty at Boston University as Associate Professor of Medicine. He was recently appointed as a clinical professor in the Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Care of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
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About THE NEW JEWISH HOME: Serving New Yorkers of all faiths and ethnicities for 168 years, The New Jewish Home is transforming eldercare as we know it. One of the nation’s largest and most diversified not‐for‐profit geriatric health and rehabilitation systems, Jewish Home serves 12,000 older adults each year, in their homes and on campuses in Manhattan and Westchester, through short-term rehabilitation, long‐term skilled nursing, low-income housing, and a wide range of home health programs. Jewish Home believes that high quality care and personal dignity are everyone’s right, regardless of background or economic circumstances. Technology, innovation, applied research and new models of care put The New Jewish Home at the vanguard of eldercare providers across the country.

NEW YORK NY: January 9, 2016 — The New Jewish Home, one of the nation’s largest and most diversified nonprofit geriatric health and rehabilitation systems, welcomes its new board chair, Michael Luskin. Mr. Luskin, who assumed his position on January 1, 2017, succeeds Elizabeth Grayer, the chair since 2012. He has been a director of The New Jewish Home since 1996.

Mr. Luskin is a partner at the New York law firm of Luskin, Stern & Eisler LLP and a bankruptcy expert who represents financial institutions and other parties in State and federal courts around the country. He is a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and Co-Chair of the Creditors’ Rights and Bankruptcy Litigation Committee of the Commercial and Federal Litigation Section of the New York State Bar Association, and has been recognized as a leading bankruptcy lawyer by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business each year since 2001.

In addition to his involvement with The New Jewish Home, Mr. Luskin is active in the Lawyers Division of UJA-Federation of New York; is a founding director of CitySquash, an urban enrichment program in The Bronx and Brooklyn; and serves on his college and law school class committees.

Mr. Luskin received his JD from Harvard Law School and his BA from Harvard College, from which he graduated magna cum laude. He lives in Scarsdale with his wife, retired pediatrician Judith Luskin. They have two grown daughters, three grandchildren, and two Welsh springer spaniels.

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About THE NEW JEWISH HOME: Serving New Yorkers of all faiths and ethnicities for 168 years, The New Jewish Home is transforming eldercare as we know it. One of the nation’s largest and most diversified not‐for‐profit geriatric health and rehabilitation systems, Jewish Home serves 12,000 older adults each year, in their homes and on campuses in Manhattan and Westchester, through short-term rehabilitation, long‐term skilled nursing, low-income housing, and a wide range of home health programs. Jewish Home believes that high quality care and personal dignity are everyone’s right, regardless of background or economic circumstances. Technology, innovation, applied research and new models of care put The New Jewish Home at the vanguard of eldercare providers across the country. For more information, visit www.jewishhome.org.

Navigators will connect rehab patients to services and support at home

NEW YORK, NY: December 5, 2016 — The New Jewish Home (formerly, Jewish Home Lifecare), a leading New York-area geriatric care system, is partnering with ReServe, a nonprofit that matches professionals 55 and older with organizations that can benefit from their expertise, to provide dementia care navigation services to rehabilitation patients as they prepare for discharge from Jewish Home and for three months afterwards.

Navigators will be trained by ReServe and then assigned to Jewish Home rehabilitation (post-acute) patients living with dementia. Once home, each patient or designated family member will get a check-in call from the patient’s navigator at least once a week as well as two home visits during the three months. To date, three navigators have completed training and begun working with Jewish Home patients.

IN THE NEWS: (“Senior Care Providers Plug Workforce Gaps with Older Adults’ Help,”Senior Housing News, December 2016) “The model is around dementia care and is a care coaching model,” says ReServe’s Traynor. ReServists who have worked in health care for their entire career seem to be able to connect with the older patients in partner organizations, because they are working with someone who is not that much older or younger than themselves, she adds.

“With people living longer, and more and more of us opting to ‘age in place’ at home, the need for health care professionals who can connect patients to home- and community-based services has become greater than ever before,” said Audrey Weiner, president and CEO of The New Jewish Home. “With their deep well of life and professional experience, the members of ReServe are ideally suited to this role.”

Said Christine McMahon, president and CEO of ReServe: “We’re excited to begin this partnership with The New Jewish Home, which has a long history of innovation in elder care. We are like-minded in our goal to transform community-based care for older adults and we know that our dementia care coaches have the skills, experience and passion to make a difference.”

Dementia care navigators counsel individuals, and the families of individuals, who have received a dementia diagnosis. Navigators connect them to resources, guide them in their decision-making, and provide them with help and hope. Navigators make patients and their families aware of both services that may be covered by insurance, such as home health aides, telemedicine, and various kinds of therapy, and publicly funded services like Access-a-Ride. Navigators also help resolve safety issues and navigate legal and financial issues.

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About THE NEW JEWISH HOME: Serving New Yorkers of all faiths and ethnicities for 168 years, The New Jewish Home (formerly, Jewish Home Lifecare) is transforming eldercare as we know it. One of the nation’s largest and most diversified not‐for‐profit geriatric health and rehabilitation systems, Jewish Home serves 12,000 older adults each year in their homes and on two campuses through short-term rehabilitation, long‐term skilled nursing, low-income housing, and a wide range of home health programs. Jewish Home believes that high quality care and personal dignity are everyone’s right, regardless of background or economic circumstances. Technology, innovation, applied research and new models of care put The New Jewish Home at the vanguard of eldercare providers across the country. For more information, visit www.jewishhome.org.

About ReSERVE: ReServe is an innovative national nonprofit headquartered in New York City that matches continuing professionals age 55+ (ReServists) with organizations that need their expertise to fill staffing needs, to expand educational and health care efforts and to fight poverty. Nonprofits and public agencies (Partners) can tap into a lifetime of experience to fill crucial staffing gaps at affordable rates. ReServists are making a tremendous difference around the country, leveraging their talent, skills and expertise to make measurable impact. ReServists work on a part-time basis in exchange for a modest hourly stipend. For more information, visit www.reserveinc.org.

The grant will fund a two-year, 306-person pilot that starts this month. Dr. Kenneth Boockvar of The New Jewish Home’s research arm, The Research Institute on Aging, will lead the study.

While studies exist on ways to reduce delirium in hospital settings little research has been done on how to reduce the condition in long-term care settings. The numbers involved are staggering. Of adults over 75, 17.5%, or 1.4 million people, are patients at the nation’s 15,000 nursing homes. As many as 23% show signs of delirium when they are admitted and 33% experience delirium during their stay.

The protocol being tested in The New Jewish Home study has the potential to yield significant savings in Medicare and Medicaid costs. For example, a nursing home intervention that reduced patient hospitalizations by 17% would result in a national savings in hospital costs of $1.9 billion annually.

The centerpiece of The New Jewish Home’s study is an intervention model called the Hospital Elder Life Program for Long-term Care, or HELP-LTC. Developed by Dr. Boockvar and his team, HELP-LTC is based on the pioneering HELP program for hospital patients created by Dr. Sharon Inouye, Director of the Aging Brain Center at Boston’s Institute for Aging Research, who is assisting Dr. Boockvar on the Jewish Home study. HELP-LTC standardizes procedures and training for treating nursing home patients at risk of delirium, such as those with acute medical conditions and those with dementia or other cognitive impairments.

Caring for patients in the HELP-LTC model is a multidisciplinary team comprising a specially trained certified nursing assistant (CNA), a geriatrician, and the patient’s primary care physician and nurses. The team monitors the patients and delivers preventative care, such as orientation and memory activities (to maintain cognitive function), water and snacks (to maintain hydration and nutrition), and daily exercise (to maintain mobility).

The new study builds on an earlier one with promising results conducted by Dr. Boockvar at The New Jewish Home. Published in the May 2016 issue of the Journal of the American Geriatric Society, the study showed that of 143 patients who received a HELP-LTC intervention, 13% were hospitalized compared to 24% in the control group, and 11% died compared to 15% in the control group.

Traumatic for those who experience it and challenging for their health care providers, delirium is a widespread phenomenon affecting roughly 33% of older adults in both hospital and long-term care settings. It can be triggered by a variety of factors, including immobility, dehydration, poor nutrition, lack of sleep, and medication issues. The condition is characterized by hallucinations, disorientation, reduced alertness, and disrupted thinking, and many of those who develop delirium never regain their pre-delirium levels of cognition and are thus never able to return home.

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ABOUT THE NEW JEWISH HOME: Serving New Yorkers of all faiths and ethnicities for almost 170 years, The New Jewish Home (formerly, Jewish Home Lifecare) is transforming eldercare as we know it. One of the nation’s largest and most diversified not‐for‐profit geriatric health and rehabilitation systems, The New Jewish Home serves 12,000 older adults each year, in their homes and on campuses in Manhattan and Westchester, through short-term rehabilitation, long‐term skilled nursing, low-income housing, and a wide range of home health programs. The New Jewish Home believes that high-quality care and personal dignity are everyone’s right, regardless of background or economic circumstance. Technology, innovation, applied research and new models of care put The New Jewish Home in the vanguard of eldercare providers across the country. For more information, visit www.jewishhome.org.

Also: New Leadership for Westchester Campus.

May 11, 2016

The New Jewish Home, one of the nation’s largest and most diversified nonprofit geriatric health and rehabilitation systems, announces several appointments to its executive management team and to senior positions at its Westchester campus, the Sarah Neuman facility in Mamaroneck. The arrivals include Jacob Victory, Chief Operating Officer; Elliot Hagler and Gabrielle Genauer, who move into the newly created positions of Chief Financial Officer and Vice President – General Counsel, respectively; and Sandra Mundy, who has been promoted to Administrator of Sarah Neuman.

Departing are Tom Gilmartin, who is stepping down after 10 years as Chief Operating Officer, and Rita Morgan, who is retiring after 27 years in senior positions, mostly recently as Interim Administrator at Sarah Neuman.

Additions to Executive Management Team

As Chief Operating Officer of The New Jewish Home, JACOB VICTORY will oversee three major areas of operation that together serve 10,000 New York elders and almost 85 percent of Jewish Home’s clientele: (1) the 1,200-person Community Services division, which cares for 9,000 older adults in their homes through a certified home health agency (CHHA); Home Assistance Personnel Inc. (HAPI), a health aide service; Solutions-at-Home, a geriatric care-management service; and a telemedicine unit, which employs technological innovations to monitor and care for elders living at home; (2) two nursing homes, on the Manhattan and Westchester campuses, which provide long-term care for 900 residents; and (3) four Bronx residences for low-income elders — three “Section 202” residences and one assisted-living residence — which provide housing for 300 elders.

Mr. Victory comes to The New Jewish Home from Health Republic Insurance of New York, where he was Senior Vice President of Strategy. He has held positions in operations, performance management, and program development at New York’s CenterLight Healthcare, the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, and New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

Mr. Victory holds an MPA in Health Finance from New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He replaces Tom Gilmartin, who has stepped down after 10 years of service.

ELLIOT HAGLER, CPA, has been named Chief Financial Officer, responsible for Finance, Information Technology, and Materials Management. Before joining Jewish Home, he spent more than a decade at Lighthouse Guild International, most recently as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. He holds a BA in economics from the City University of New York.

GABRIELLE GENAUER has joined the staff as Vice President – General Counsel, responsible for all legal affairs, including compliance. Ms. Genauer comes to Jewish Home from the Wall Street law firm of Hughes Hubbard & Reed, LLP, where she has spent almost a decade counseling clients on litigation strategy, risk management and compliance. She earned a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a BS from Cornell University.

New Leadership at Sarah Neuman in Mamaroneck

The New Jewish Home has named SANDRA MUNDY, LMSW, NHA, to the senior-most position at Sarah Neuman, that of Administrator. Ms. Mundy previously spent two years as Associate Administrator of the Bronx campus. She replaces Rita Morgan, who is retiring after 27 dedicated years of service.

Ms. Mundy will oversee a 300-bed facility whose 450-person staff cares for 1,000 elders each year through short-term rehabilitation, long-term nursing, and a day center. Ms. Mundy will also be responsible for Sarah Neuman’s various special programs, including Westchester’s firstovernight respite program for people living with Alzheimer’s and other forms of severe dementia, and first elder residences, known as the Small Houses, based on the groundbreaking Green House Project® model of long-term care.

Before joining Jewish Home in 2014, Ms. Mundy spent 11 years as Assistant Administrator for Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement at the Newark Extended Care Facility in New Jersey. She earned both an MSW from New York University and a BA from the State University of New York at Albany.

OLIVIA BABOL-IBE, RNC, BSN, MSN, has been named Director of Nursing at Sarah Neuman after serving as Director of Nursing on the Bronx campus. She brings with her more than 30 years’ experience that includes senior positions at the Schervier Nursing Care Center, part of the Bon Secours New York Health System; the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, and New Rochelle’s Dumont Masonic Home. Ms. Babol-Ibe is Chairperson of the LeadingAge New York Downstate Council of Nursing Directors and holds a BSN from Velez College, Philippines and an MSN from Silliman University in Dumaguete City, Philippines.

CHRISTINA GIARRATANO, LMSW, rejoins The New Jewish Home as Sarah Neuman’s Director of Social Work after a brief hiatus as Director of Social Work at the Methodist Home for Nursing and Rehabilitation in The Bronx.She holds an MSW from Columbia University School of Social Work and a BA from Hunter College.

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About THE NEW JEWISH HOME: Serving New Yorkers of all faiths and ethnicities for 168 years, The New Jewish Home is transforming eldercare as we know it. One of the nation’s largest and most diversified not‐for‐profit geriatric health and rehabilitation systems, Jewish Home serves 12,000 older adults each year, in their homes and on three campuses, through short-term rehabilitation, long‐term skilled nursing, low-income housing, and a wide range of home health programs. Jewish Home believes that high quality care and personal dignity are everyone’s right, regardless of background or economic circumstances. Technology, innovation, applied research and new models of care put The New Jewish Home at the vanguard of eldercare providers across the country. For more information, visit www.jewishhome.org.

ALSO: New Directors of Nursing and Social Work

MAMARONECK, NY: May 11, 2016 — The New Jewish Home, one of the nation’s largest and most diversified nonprofit geriatric health and rehabilitation systems, has named Sandra Mundy, LMSW, NHA, Administrator of its Westchester campus, the Sarah Neuman Center in Mamaroneck. In this top position she replaces Rita Morgan, who is retiring after 27 years of service, most recently as Interim Administrator at Sarah Neuman. Olivia Babol-Ibe, RNC, BSN, MSN, and Christina Giarratano, LMSW, have been named Director Nursing and Director of Social Work, respectively.

Ms. Mundy and Ms. Babol-Ibe come to Sarah Neuman from Jewish Home’s Bronx campus, where they were Associate Administrator and Director of Nursing, respectively. Christina Giarratano rejoins Jewish Home after a brief hiatus as Director of Social Work at the Methodist Home for Nursing and Rehabilitation in The Bronx.

As Administrator of the Sarah Neuman Center, Sandra Mundy will hold the senior-most position on Jewish Home’s Westchester campus. She will oversee a 300-bed facility whose 450-person staff cares for 1,000 elders each year through short-term rehabilitation, long-term nursing, and a day center. Ms. Mundy will also be responsible for Sarah Neuman’s various special programs, including Westchester’s firstovernight respite program for people living with Alzheimer’s and other forms of severe dementia, and first elder residences, known as the Small Houses, based on the groundbreaking Green House Project® model of long-term care.

Before joining Jewish Home in 2014, Ms. Mundy spent 11 years as Assistant Administrator for Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement at the Newark Extended Care Facility in New Jersey. She earned both an MSW from New York University and a BA from the State University of New York at Albany.

Director of Nursing Olivia Babol-Ibe brings with her more than 30 years’ experience that includes senior positions at the Schervier Nursing Care Center, part of the Bon Secours New York Health System; the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, and New Rochelle’s Dumont Masonic Home. Ms. Babol-Ibe is Chairperson of the LeadingAge New York Downstate Council of Nursing Directors and holds a BSN from Velez College, Philippines and an MSN from Silliman University in Dumaguete City, Philippines.

Director of Social Work Christina Giarratano holds an MSW from Columbia University School of Social Work and a BA from Hunter College.

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About the SARAH NEUMAN CENTER: Mamaroneck’s Sarah Neuman Center, part of The New Jewish Home, one of the country’s largest and most diversified geriatric health and rehabilitation systems, plays an important role in caring for the most frail and vulnerable elders in Larchmont, Mamaroneck and the surrounding area. The 450-person staff of health care professionals provides gentle, thoughtful, expert care for 1,100 elders each year. They include 300 adults who live at the five-and-a-half-acre campus full-time, are undergoing short-term post-surgery rehabilitation, or are recovering from a serious illness. The Center, which is known for its expertise in caring for seniors with Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia, also offers a day center and the popular Home Away from Homerespite program for older caregivers in need of a break from the 24/7 stress of caring for a loved one with severe physical and/or psychological challenges. For more information, visit www.sarahneuman.org.

About THE NEW JEWISH HOME: Serving New Yorkers of all faiths and ethnicities for 168 years, The New Jewish Home is transforming eldercare as we know it. One of the nation’s largest and most diversified not‐for‐profit geriatric health and rehabilitation systems, Jewish Home serves 12,000 older adults each year, in their homes and on three campuses, through short-term rehabilitation, long‐term skilled nursing, low-income housing, and a wide range of home health programs. Jewish Home believes that high quality care and personal dignity are everyone’s right, regardless of background or economic circumstances. Technology, innovation, applied research and new models of care put The New Jewish Home at the vanguard of eldercare providers across the country. For more information, visit www.jewishhome.org.

3rd Annual “Eight Over Eighty” Benefit Gala Honors

NEW YORK, NY: March 14, 2016 – At its third annual Eight Over Eighty benefit gala, The New Jewish Home will pay tribute to eight New Yorkers who, in their ninth and tenth decades, continue to live lives of remarkable achievement, vitality and civic engagement. The event, at the Mandarin Oriental New York on Monday, April 11, is expected to attract more than 450 guests and raise more than $1 million for the nonprofit New Jewish Home’s rehabilitation, skilled nursing, and home healthcare programs, which together serve 12,000 older adults each year.

The honorees, each of whom will be celebrated in a video vignette, are financier Bob Appel, singer and humanitarianHarry Belafonte, ballet great Jacques d’Amboise, philanthropist Joy Henshel, Broadway superstar Chita Rivera, legendary ad man Keith Reinhard, gossip queen Liz Smith, and Sesame Street’s Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch,Caroll Spinney. These men and women represent the best of the best in arts and entertainment, advertising, business, volunteerism and philanthropy. They are movers and shakers who are still contributing and still making waves, in the process showing the world that trailblazing is ageless. Biographies of the honorees follow below; for photos, please visit www.8over80.org.

“By 2030, 30 percent of the U.S. population will be over 80,” said Audrey Weiner, President and CEO of The New Jewish Home. “Like the teeming energy New York itself, the variety of accomplishments and the personalities of our eight honorees shows us what it means to age like a New Yorker. In other words, the sky’s the limit for these vibrant men and women, still going strong over 80.”

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GALA BENEFIT COMMITTEE

Helen and Bob Appel, Carol Becker, Margot and Norman Freedman, Robin and Scott Gottlieb, Susan and David Haas, Ruth and David Levine, Melanie Katzman and Russell

Bob Appel is President of Appel Associates, a money management and investment firm, and was a partner of the investment advisory firm Neuberger Berman for 20 years. He is Chairman of the Board of Jazz at Lincoln Center, to which, in 2014, he and his wife, Helen, made the largest individual gift in the organization’s history. He is also a trustee emeritus of Cornell University and a committed fundraiser for Weill Cornell Medical College, home of the Helen and Robert Appel Institute for Alzheimer’s Disease Research.

Harry Belafonte is an outstanding performer and producer whose album “Calypso” became the first recording in history to sell more than a million copies. He is also a humanitarian with a long and distinguished record of human rights advocacy that includes serving as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and organizing the multi-artist “We Are the World” recording, which raised millions of dollars for emergency assistance in Africa. Belafonte’s many awards include the Kennedy Center Honors and the National Medal of the Arts.

One of the finest classical dancers of our time, Jacques d’Amboise is also an arts education leader who created a model program that has introduced thousands of school children to the magic and discipline of dance and the founder of the National Dance Institute. As a dancer, Mr. d’Amboise is most remembered for his portrayal of what critics called “the definitive Apollo.” A choreographer as well, his credits include almost 20 works commissioned for New York City Ballet.

Joy Henshel is a longtime, esteemed director of The New Jewish Home’s Sarah Neuman Center as well as being a prolific philanthropist in the areas of the arts, health, social justice and Jewish organizations. Her public service includes her appointment by Mayor John Lindsay to the New York-Tokyo sister city program in 1966, and two years of work for the events firm planning and executing Liberty Weekend, the four-day celebration of the restoration and centennial of the Statue of Liberty in 1986. Mrs. Henshel is an active trustee of Surprise Lake Camp, a longtime volunteer at White Plains Hospital, the mother of four daughters, and a very generous donor to The New Jewish Home.

Under the leadership of Keith Reinhard, DDB Worldwide, one of the world’s largest and most creative advertising agency networks, produced award-winning work for Volkswagen, Anheuser-Busch, Frito-Lay, Dell Computer, JC Penney, Ameriquest and many other clients. Reinhard himself gave birth to such memorable advertising characters and slogans as, for McDonald’s, the Hamburglar and “You Deserve a Break Today,” which in 1999 Advertising Age named the best advertising jingle of the 20th century and one of the century’s top-five campaigns.

After her breakout portrayal of Anita in 1957’s West Side Story, the great Broadway star Chita Rivera went on to earn a Tony nomination for Bye Bye Birdie and Tony Awards for The Rink and Kiss of the Spider Woman. Her many other spellbinding performances include those in Nine; Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life, (another Tony nomination); The Mystery of Edwin Drood; and The Visit, for which she received her tenth Tony nomination. Rivera has received the Kennedy Center Honors award and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

A writer of humor, wit and empathy, Liz Smith is much more than a gossip columnist, though she helped define the term. Smith began writing in the 1950s and has never stopped, working for Hearst, Cosmopolitan, Sports Illustrated, the New York Daily News, “Live at Five,” Newsday, the New York Post, and now The Huffington Post and New York Social Diary. She is a best-selling author and has the distinction of being the only columnist to have had her column printed in three major New York City papers simultaneously.

For more than 40 years, Caroll Spinney has been Sesame Street’s Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, in the process earning four Emmy Awards, two Gold Records, and two Grammy Awards. In 2000, the Library of Congress declared Spinney’s Big Bird a “Living Legend.” With J Milligan, Spinney has written The Wisdom of Big Bird (and the Dark Genius of Oscar the Grouch): Lessons from a Life in Feathers. Spinney recently received the Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award from the National Association of Television Arts and Sciences.

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Serving New Yorkers of all faiths and ethnicities for 167 years, The New Jewish Home is transforming eldercare as we know it. One of the nation’s largest and most diversified not‐for‐profit geriatric health and rehabilitation systems, Jewish Home serves 12,000 older adults each year, in their homes and on three campuses, through short-term rehabilitation, long‐term skilled nursing, low-income housing, and a wide range of home health programs. Jewish Home believes that high quality care and personal dignity are everyone’s right, regardless of background or economic circumstances. Technology, innovation, applied research and new models of care put The New Jewish Home at the vanguard of eldercare providers across the country. For more information, visit www.jewishhome.org.